Swiss Open Source Software Conference & Exposition
24 and 25 September 2008, Eulachhallen Winterthur
http://www.openexpo.ch/openexpo-2008-zuerich/call-for-participation/
The Swiss Drupal User Group is planning to have a presence at this conference. cgalli, the moderator of this group is registering us with the organizers to ensure we have a stand at the OpenExpo.
At the May Drupal User Group meeting on 7 May, a number of you expressed an interest to help out. Your help and participation is most welcome. Please post your suggestions for the event here. If you have ideas for interesting Drupal demos, let us know as well. Marketing lessons learnt at events was something we discussed at this meeting, so please contribute your know-how in this area to make this a success.
Drupal is the most under represented CMS in Switzerland - let's change that at the OpenExpo and get the message out.
For more information, get in touch with cgalli or myself.
Comments
As already said at the
As already said at the meeting, this sound very nice. I would gladly come and join.
Some ideas:
- A couple classicle websites and show the user how to administer/customize it.
- Have them play around
- have them install a drupal site
- introduce the community
Looking fwd to participate
This would be a great starting point for a first public activity of the swiss drupal community.
I'm looking forward to be part of it.
Some sample applications as rapsli suggests would be a nice advertisment. Especially specific rapid development techniques & professinality should be a main part. My ideas:
- One station for building a simple site structure, placing blocks, creating a simple view, adding sample content - when playing around.
- Showcase (directory and sample setup for swiss drupal demos)
- Sample sites - possibly dev duplicates - to have real setups to play with.
- show swiss drupal community as a team & source of knowledge
- professional background of participants & services to provide
further
more examples of famous drupal sites: http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites
Hackontest
Parallel zur OpenExpo findet der "24h-Programmiermarathon" Hackontest statt. Hackontest wird von Google gesponsort. Auf der Hackontest Website können ab sofort Projekte registriert werden. Entwickler oder Anwender können danach für das Projekt Verbesserungsvorschläge / Feature Requests eintragen, die am Hackontest implementiert werden sollen. Für weitere Informationen siehe auch den Beitrag auf Slashdot. Freiwillige Drupal Hacker vor! :-)
Hackontest - posted in English, this time :-)
The "24h programming marathon" Hackontest will be held in parallel to the OpenExpo. Hackontest is sponsored by Google. Starting now, open source projects can be registered at the Hackontest website. Developers and users can then add feature requests, which could be implemented at Hackontest. For further information see also the Slashdot post. Volunteer Drupal hackers, please step forward! :-)